Jensen Huang Had to Go—and Now He’s Gone
\n\nFor all the worrying about what Jensen Huang’s departure means for Nvidia, we suspect the people with the most to lose are in China. They have just lost one of their most effective lobbyists in Washington, and finding a replacement may be harder than finding someone to run a chip company.
\n\nHuang’s fixation on China was always a little puzzling given how many customers elsewhere were waiting to buy his chips. Most businesses would envy the problem of having more demand than they could satisfy. Huang somehow made it sound as though being shut out of China would leave Nvidia with nowhere to turn.
\n\nThere was a deeper story that Huang sold to the Trump administration. He argued that selling chips to China would keep its artificial intelligence industry dependent on American technology. Denying it access would encourage Beijing to develop alternatives, eventually threatening America’s technological leadership. With this argument, Huang managed to elevate his pursuit of Chinese revenue into something resembling a patriotic duty.
\n\nThis argument was always questionable. There is an old line about capitalists selling the communists the rope used to hang them. It’s hardly reassuring to the fellow…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
